Someone was up late last night! And here’s a round-up of what our favorite beta crab Ghostcrawler had to say while posting on the WotLK Beta Hunter forum at 3 am.

On the change to pet resistances:

The problem with spell resistance is a successful resist grants immunity to both damage and effects such as CC.

We don’t want pets to get to the point where they resist nearly all CC effects… though being that this is a board of hunters you will probably disagree. :)

But we don’t want your pets to die to a single spell either, which is why we’d rather handle surviving spell damage (especially in PvP) through a percent damage reduction. That is something we are looking at now. There are also talents that can further reduce spell damage.

Because your pets benefit from your resistance, it should still be possible to get them to survive in magic-heavy PvE encounters.

On the current state of pet aggro in build 8770 (which is somewhat odd):

As you can see, the results are a little inconsistent. Before we just buff pet threat across the board, we need to make sure that there aren’t more bugs resulting in spikey or unpredictable behavior.

On Cower turning itself back on:

It’s just a bug. Spells turned off should stay off.

On chimaeras’ massive damage:

Because the chimera ability does two types of damage at once (like the new Mage spell), it seems to have some crazy scaling effect. This is the first pet ability with two types of damage, so it’s likely that is the problem.

On the tradeoffs between worms and devilsaurs:

Yeah, but you have to have a WORM for a pet. What if the other hunters laugh at you?

Indeed, I’ve been laughed at several times already as Kaet runs around the world with her big white worm Priapus.